Lamp mounting for toy vehicles



March 26, 1935. H. KRAEFT LAMP MOUNTING FOR TOY VEHICLES Filed July 10, 1955 1 16. 4 9 JWMQ; MW 05 W B 2M ZTM/w Patented Mar. 26, 1935 i ,1; 2 1 995 309 Herman L. Kraeft, Cleveland, Ohio, assignor to The Murray-Ohio Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio, a corporation of Ohio Application July 10, 1933, Serial No. 679,685

1 Claim. (01. 240-71) 'This invention pertains to vehicle toys probase or lug 10, in a rounded manner to enhance vided with electric lighting systems, embodying the appearance thereof, and is provided with a miniature electric light or flash-light bulbs. The central opening or aperture 16 of a diameter general object of the present invention is to greater than the diameter of the body 17 of a 5 provide a simple, efiicient supporting means for lamp Soc t me ber 18. The Po t 5 of the 5 head lights that is readily adaptable to toy vehibracket is also provided W h a flange 19, for the, cles, and which will permit the ruseeof standard P p Of adding Strength to e bracket, as bulb constructions and sockets well as to increase the attractiveness thereof.

7 A more specific object of my invention is the The socket 18 may be of the standard'dimen- 10 provision of a novel bracket construction for 510118, b t I p vide a flange 20 at the bulb-re- 10 supporting a miniature lamp sock t and lam ceiving end thereof, the outer diameter of which and which can be readily assembled in producis greater t a the aperture 16 formed in the. tion regardless of slight variations in the dimenbracket p rti f a pu p to be s i d. sions of standard miniature bulbs and the sockets It Will be noted, aS Shown in a the 15 therefor. socket 18 is provided with an insulating disk 21, 15

Other objects. of my invention will hereinafter formed of porcelain O h Suitable in a in become apparent from the following description, material, which DD the terminal d 22 O which refers to the accompanying drawing, 11. a battery wire 23, and the body 17 of the socket lustrating a preferred embodiment thereof. The 13 is provided with a thread o ation 24 for essential characteristics are summarized in the t reception of the threaded socket end of e 20 claim. a miniature lamp 25. The threads 24 are usually In the drawing, Fig. l is a side view of a miniaformed by a o n Operation, and u rolling ture toy'vehicle, equipped with my i t operation incidentally produces an external Fig. 2 is a side view of my miniature bulb mountead 26, which I utilize in the following mail- 25 ing, adaptable for attachment to the front fend- 11913 25 ers of the toy, as well as tothe rear of the body To held the Socket member 13 in p I thereof; Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken through Provide a Semi-flexible disk having a t b t and t; 4 is a perspective diameter substantially equal to the diameter of i of t bracket per and Fig 5 is a the bracket portion 15 of the bracket structure,

spective view of a specially formed washer or and perforate the disk m Such mannejr as to 30 disk which affords Screw engagement with the provide several tongues or prongs 31, which can be distorted, as shown in Fig. 3, to serve as an gggg g Socket m a manner to be herema'fter internal thread, adapted to engage the external M invention contem lates the rovision of a q 26 on the Socket memberls' by lamg mounting for min i ature vehi le toys, screwing the washer 30 over the outside of the 35 prising a one-piece stamped metal bracket foru gp fl 33 g 3 mation, adaptable to support a miniature lamp f 6 re Ion o me e ass own socket, the body of which comprises the usual inm t k t teriorly-exteriorly threaded sheet metal tube, one It W111 be apparen hat 1s brac e Comm 4o end of which is closed by an insulated means tion, and the manner of attaching the socket to 40 adapted to Support a Contact for a miniature bulb the bracket provides a conductive connection be-. Contact tween the fiange20 of the socket and the bracket,

which is firmly maintained by the disk 30. Also, I s m 3 a 3 if there is any variation in the length of the plesse me me e compnsmg ac body of the socket, this variation can be cor- 45 base or lug which may be rectangular rected during the formation of the socket flange as shown or be formed to any'sha'pe be 20,50 that positive connection between the lamp plementary to the shape of the partlcular part contact and socket contact is always assured of the toy vehicle to which the bracket is to be when assembly is taking place in production attached. A perforation 11 is provided therein, quantities and they lamp 257 can always be 50 whereby the bracket lug 10 may be securely screwed the full length of the socket to make a p to the body member 12 of h Vehicle contact with the terminal 22 of the socket.

by a rivet or bolt 14. V I- claim: 7 r

Th bracket is provided t a p Socket A lamp bracket for a toy vehicle, adapted to 5 supporting branch 15, formed normal to the support a, miniature lamp, comprising an exteriorly threaded socket member having an annular flange adjacent one end thereof, an apertured metallic bracket member having an opening therein greater than the diameter of the threaded portion of said socket, but less than the diameter of the flange on said socket, a semiflexible washer having an opening therein of greater diameter than the threaded portion :of

said socket andha ving a plurality-:01 ears ex- Y 10 tending radially into said opening to engage the threads of said socket and retain it in position projecting through the opening in said bracket, said bracket having an ear bent normal to the plane of the bracket and extending rearwardly therefrom for securing the bracket to the toy vehicle, and an annular flange formed on said bracket and extending forwardly therefrom to form (a partial damp housing for a lamp positioned in said .SOCkEt.

HERMAN L. KRAEFT. 

